Or why estimates need to happen in one way or another.

There are indeed cases where you don't want to hurt your reputation...

It looks like desperate times for the venture capitalists behind the AI bubble...

Or why I really hate the whole certification business. Especially for process and practice's related topics, this pushes the multiplication of brands and churches to sustain them. The right approach is almost always a blend of different influences and flavours.

When hype meets group think, you can quickly create broken culture in your organization... We're seeing more examples lately.

Developers tend to push for pair programming mostly for technical and code quality reasons. This is fine, but often the fact that it also spreads knowledge and ensures business continuity is forgotten.

I willadmit it... I laughed. And that's just one business risk among many.

This matches what I see. For some tasks these can be helpful tools, but it definitely need a strong hand to steer them in the right direction and to know when to not use them. If you're a junior you'd better invest in the craft rather than such tools. If you got experience, use with care and keep the ethical conundrum in mind.

There's some truth to this. It's easier to market yourself as a specialist rather than a generalist... This doesn't make it easy.

Are we surprised? Not really... This kind of struggle was an obvious outcome from the heavy dependencies between both companies.

Here we go for a brand new marketing stunt from OpenAI. You can also tell the pressure is rising since all of this is still operating at a massive loss.

I'm still baffled people are coming with ideas like this for their businesses... The level of cynicism you must have to build such a startup.

Alright, this piece is full of vitriol... And I like it. The CES has clearly become a mirror of the absurdities our industry is going through. The vision proposed by a good chunk of the companies is not appealing and lazy.

Looks like the monopolists are vexed and are looking for arguments to discredit the competition... of all the arguments, this one is likely the most ridiculous seeing their own behavior.

Excellent satire, it summaries the situation quite well.

I guess this was just a matter of time, the obsession of "just make it bigger" was making most player myopic. Now this obviously collides with geopolitics since this time it's about a Chinese company being ahead.

Very nice editorial. It's clear that the level of trust in the technologies we depend on is low... but that's not due to the technologies themselves it's more about the business practices around them. In the end the solution will have to be political, in the meantime we ought to support the good players.

Good overview on how the databases landscape evolved the past year.

Or why making a dent in the enterprise software space is hard for FOSS... The good news is, it'd require setting up whole ecosystems of services.

An important white paper which probably went unnoticed. It gives a nice overview of the strategies one can build around Open Source components.